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There have been a few changes since my last post, most notably: "Change History" page for servers, containing mostly the history of online players peaks and configuration changes (config.lua); Status Analytics for all OT Servers; Introduction of player activity points; I'm also working on a...

You can certainly use OT Archive to find things like edited characters, however you have to keep in mind how it works. The status protocol sends only the names and levels of the online characters. To extract useful information you have to compare it with previous checks.

Introducing a new way to view OT Archive's data, gathered over the status protocol. You can now access the analytics page of any OT Server on OT Archive by accessing a server page and clicking on the "Analytics" button in the side menu (end of the page on mobile). It is a dashboard with...

Update: Database reset to fix design A few more info extracted from player data and added to servers and players pages. Please create Discord Notifications again if you had any.

Just a heads up: During a few hours OT Archive was unable to edit messages so new ones were sent. It was caused by a network instability and everything should be back to normal. Quick demo of all types:

Simple video with the setup procedure:

Update: Discord Messages System. You can read about it here.

You can now setup OT Archive to send messages, containing server and players info, to one or more Discord channels. There are currently 6 message types: Server Status Notifications This type will send notifications when a server is offline, back online or has restarted. Useful for server...

Yes, pretty much. Checking other players levels is indeed one option that's likely to be used. Thank you for sharing your thoughts.

That's true, sadly the data from servers is limited and not all scenarios can be accounted for. 1662566162 It might be possible to approach it differently if a server is detected as war, I'll give it some thought.

Your observations are appreciated, thank you! I will work on improvements. The new players list is indeed sorted by newest to oldest. "Seen" is the count of how many times the player has been received during checks, yeah, it's not very useful.

I see what you mean, thanks! The difference is from deleted/renamed characters. OT Archive won't know when this happens. I will think of ways to reduce this kind of occurrence, probably using the new activity system. This way only recently active players will show and the deleted/renamed...

Hey! Can you please send me an example so I can look into it? Thanks!

Working on storing and showing server info changes (MOTD, engine, owner, map, etc). Thinking about the new formula for server points, will try to use the Activity Ratio. Maybe also use new players rate or ratio.

Update New info added to servers:

Update: Now testing the Activity Ratio system. It's determined by the ratio of seen players and active players, from the last 168 hrs. Players are classified as active if any level was lost or gained during the last 168 hrs. It might be used to influence server scores, in the future, after...

I think they will keep it, their listing comes straight from the database while OT Archive's from the status protocol. But yeah, there are several ways to spoof them both. I can see it. Tabular layout has been the default for OT Lists since forever, so I wanted to try something different that...

Thank you. Could you please elaborate on why you think it's not presentable and on what could be done?

It's normal for informed and seen to be the same, informed to be 1-5 over seen or even informed to be drastically less than seen in a few cases. Seen is the count of all players received during the check, so I would say that if informed is much higher than seen, something might not be right...

Update: OT Archive will now attempt to save all online servers' websites to Wayback Machine, daily. A link to Wayback Machine is now included in all server cards: Websites are linked and added if a valid URL is received via status protocol.